Which to use
“essaies” and “essayée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,258
- “essaies” frequency rank
- #39,789
- “essayée” frequency rank
- 54047
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | essaies | essayée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de essayer. | Participe passé féminin singulier de essayer. |
Where the eye mixes essaies and essayée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. essaies (VCCVVVC) and essayée (VCCVVVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Look-alike desk: essaies vs essayée
A purely visual mix-up. essaies (\e.sɛ\) and essayée (\e.sɛ.je\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54047, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
essaies is recorded at frequency rank #14,258, classified as averb, pronounced \e.sɛ\. essayée is at rank #39,789, tagged as averb, pronounced \e.sɛ.je\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 54047, this pair ranks #136,679 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of essaies vs essayée
Shared letters: aes. Private to "essaies": i. Private to "essayée": yé.
"essaies" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC · "essayée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- essaies ← esaies · esasies · essaeis · essaiess · essaise · essiaes · sesaies
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "essaies" for "essayée" ever safe?
Which is more common, "essaies" or "essayée"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "essaies" and "essayée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "essaies" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "essayée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #136,679 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "essaies" and "essayée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "essay vs essayée". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #136,679 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.